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What is a signed versus unsigned integer?
What is a signed versus unsigned integer?
- Eliot Muir
Owned by Eliot Muir
Aug 29, 2021
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A signed integer is one which can be negative. In other words it has a positive (+) or negative (-) sign in front of it.
Computers will treat the top bit as the “sign” bit in a number.
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